Molly Campbell, Director, Port Department, The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, USA

Parallel Session 1 – The waterfront Next Generation ? I’m living and working here!
Residents and visitors would like better quality of life in river or marine waterfront areas. The challenge is considerable for port cities, with available land becoming more and more scarce, and sustainability an increasingly important priority. How can housing, public spaces, and urban amenities live side by side with economic activities? How can innovative mixed-use solutions be found? How can a leisure-oriented waterfront be transformed into a working waterfront for living and working in a regenerated urban environment, affirming the port city’s modernity?

Cécile Comte, Head of the Port Planning and Compliance Division of the Ports, CCI Nice Côte d'Azur, France

Parallel Session 2 – Healthier, greener: my port city environment Next Generation.
Living and working in a clean and green environment is an increasingly important aspiration for city dwellers. The citizen’s legitimate right to better health, protection and respect for biodiversity, preservation of natural resources: on all of these issues, port cities can and must provide practical solutions. For residents of port cities, and for everyone, this is not just an aspiration, but an absolute necessity.

Parallel Session 3 – Training, learning, creativity: my education Next Generation.
The importance of human capital is now well understood by movers and shakers. For every port city, it is a key ingredient in any medium or long term development strategy. More than ever, economic, environmental and technological changes are making the port an essential stakeholder in a constantly expanding territory. As part of an evolving professional career, citizens are asking to be involved, trained or persuaded to contribute to the vitality and vibrancy of their City Port ecosystem. New training, educational and awareness-raising resources are opening up the port to its citizens, stimulating creativity and encouraging initiative, to enhance the appeal of the City port territory.

Nicole Trépanier, President and CEO, ST. Lauwrence Economic Development Council (SODES), Quebec, Canada

Parallel Session 4 – Carbon free, circular: the port industry Next Generation.
With many citizens keen to see a move towards a lower-carbon economy that uses fewer resources, port cities are at the heart of the energy transition and a more circular industry. The development of LNG and offshore wind power are bringing new opportunities to generate added value for ports. The creation of heat networks, along with shared control of materials flows between businesses, are helping to make territories more attractive while promoting cohesion. New concepts are being trialled in new sectors of the blue economy. Faced with these major changes in the port and its partners, preparations need to be made and citizens given a role.

Online commerce, the emergence of Google, Amazon, Alibaba and other giants of the new economy, have contributed to an extraordinary acceleration in global maritime trade. Unfortunately, this often means more congestion in port cities. The ability to move easily around City Port interfaces, share infrastructures, deliver or receive packages on time and access terminals quickly is becoming a key priority, both for port workers and local residents. Faced with these substantial requirements, the range of possible solutions is widening. With changes to logistical organisations giving a greater role to river or maritime traffic, the quest for “hypermodality” is set to become a reality.

Parallel Session 6 – City, Port, Citizens: the co-construction Next Generation.
Faced with societal, economic and environmental challenges, the strategies and policies adopted by port cities today will influence their capacity for resilience and innovation in the future. That is why local stakeholders – citizens, urban planners, economic, industrial and port operators – are already adopting new forms of collaboration and governance. They should be encouraged to work together more closely and take advantage of synergies, through co-working and sharing. An inclusive approach to project creation, involving citizens, city and port working hand in hand to achieve sustainable development goals, is another way of finding the solutions needed for a resilient port city.

Friday 15 June 2018

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AIVP is the only international organisation that, for 30 years, has been bringing together all the public and private development stakeholders in port cities. AIVP has had the privilege of bearing witness to the changes underway in cities and ports the world over; we have accompanied our members in the implementation of new strategies that allow them to more effectively face up to the changes that impact economic, social and environmental development in port cities: urban-port integration, global reorganisation of economic routes, the challenge of societal integration, the climate change, the energy transition, the development of the cruise industry, etc.

AIVP consists of: elected representatives of cities and other local maritime and river organisations, port administrations and national authorities, urban and port operators, businesses established in port cities, service providers for port-city projects, architects, landscape architects and urban planners, universities and research institutes.